The Agia Triada Monastery stands on the Akrotiri peninsula near Chania, Crete. It is dedicated to the Holy Trinity. Two brothers of the Venetian Zangaroli family founded it in the seventeenth century on the site of an earlier church. A cellar door is dated 1613, and an inscription on the facade is dated 1631.
The church is cruciform with three domes and a Byzantine plan. Two smaller domed chapels, Zoodochos Pigi and Saint John the Theologian, flank it. The entrance has Doric and Corinthian columns, and the facade has Ionian and Corinthian double columns. The narthex is set at a right angle to the main aisle.
The monastery was established as a theological school in 1833, and a seminary followed in 1892. Today the monks produce and sell wine and olive oil. A museum holds icons and codices, including a seventeenth-century Last Judgment by Emmanuel Skordiles.
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